Since I couldn't get into the woods with all the snow I got the splitter out. (had to move some snow for that too). Finished off the rest of the silver maple cut last May. Now I can finally get back to the hickory, cherry and red elm that I cut last winter. About 2 1/2 cord in that pile. (7 rows deep). All told I have 6 cord or better in rounds that need splitting but really would rather be bringing more home and save the splitting for the evenings after we start getting light longer. Maybe better this way though, so I have more room for rounds without having to start another area.
I like the idea of working in the evenings with the increasing light. I've been meaning to get some splitting done after work, but I'm usually out of energy at that point. Of course it's also been cold as heck so that doesn't help my motivation. -10deg. F this morning on the lake. Caught some fish, tho.
No ladder Bogy, but stack as high as I can because of limited area that I want to use of the yard. (have stood on a round to put a few uglies on the top) Here' a shot going the other way from the first picture of wood on the right. I'll be restacking a bit because she has a lean to her.
Locust, we usually wait until after snow melt and then bring out the splitter and put the saw away. Works good for us and one other thing is that we don't mud up the woods.
Ice fishing, yupp. It's pretty fun under the right circumstances. A few hours standing on a block of ice gives you an even better appreciation of wood heat haha.
Just for clarification, the pile of rounds is 2 1/2 cords not the pile of splits in the first picture.
That's my usual pattern to Sav but I am behind from last year on the splitting with all the wood I hauled in so I wanted to get something accomplished today.
It's called ice drinking actually..... An awesome way to waste away a cold afternoon with good friends. And who says you can't appreciate wood heat - my buddies and I had an old pot belly stove in the ice shack we built over a summer vacation when we were 10-12yo. It lasted till somewhere around my first year of college it melted froze in and sits at the bottom of Thomas Pond in Maine
Sweet, Looks like it was a great day outside and you got some wood split up so it can't get much better in my book
I have to plow out an area and get the splitter fired up too. Will be like working in an ice cave with the snow banks...
